The Colonial Gardener Project 2012

I’m going to follow the instructions written for home gardeners in 1854 by Smith, Adamson and Co in their booklet The Colonial Gardener. This booklet is thought to be one of the first home gardening books published in Victoria and outlines monthly instructions for the vegetable garden. If you would like to have a look at it click here it is available online through the State Library of Victoria website.

This project will start in April 2012.

In the meantime I will be re-posting a project I was involved in during 2010 called The Queen’s Scullery. In this project I tried to re-create a number of Victoria Era gardening practices.